[haiku-development] Re: MimeType aliases.

Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I discovered that older versions of SoundPlay (v4.7.3 and below,  
> more
> specifically) work almost flawlessly(*) under Haiku so I started it 
> on
> all my Haiku installations.

flawlessly(*)?

> audio
>    mpeg
>    x-mpeg -> mpeg

For what types is aliasing actually useful?
If it's just for the "x-" part we could put a little logic in the 
BMimeType implementation that automatically kicks out the x- if it 
couldn't find a type and retry without it - at least the usage of "x-" 
is standardized.
Of course, that wouldn't help (but neither does your solution) if 
SoundPlay or other apps would write the x- type into the file directly 
(checking and preferring a known type by default might be a bit slow 
there).

Bye,
   Axel.

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